Description: "Explores how prison writing programs still make use of colonial ways of knowing and being that work against the decolonial intentions of the field, and suggests indigenous scholarship as a theoretical basis for pushing back against individualized, economic assessments of value and designing principles for research and pedagogy that are respectful, reciprocal, and relational"--
Brief description: Anna Plemons is a clinical assistant professor at Washington State University-TriCities, where she teaches in the English and Digital Technology and Culture programs. Since 2009 she has also taught nonfiction narrative through the Arts in Corrections program at New Folsom Prison. She has published work related to prison education in Teaching Artist Journal, Community Literacy Journal, and the edited collections Prison Pedagogy: Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers (2018) and Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison: Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall (2019).